Bed 2,LACMIP Locality 17685, Gaillard Cut, Culebra Fm (Miocene of Panama)

Also known as Reef 2776

Where: Panama (9.1° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.1° N, 77.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Emperador Limestone Member (Culebra Formation), Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• The thickness for the formation is about 150 m at this point. meters indicate distance to border of Las Cascadas Formation; beds about 62 m thick. AGE: Early Miocene in text; direct date extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999), =Aquitanian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, carbonaceous mudstone and lithified sandstone

• Tectonic setting: could also be an active rift basin
• thick sequence of carbonaceous mudstone with thin tabular interbeds of fossiliferous lithic wacke

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: K. G. Johnson and M. X. Kirby. 2006. The Emperador Limestone rediscovered: early miocene corals from the Culebra Formation, Panama. Journal of Paleontology 80(2):283-293 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60255: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 08.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea imperatoris
Montastrea imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
listed as Montastraea
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora saludensis
Acropora saludensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Ichnofossils -
Thalassinoides sp.
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944